Biological universals displace cultural particulars, and Riegl's argument that our sense of beauty is historical is trampled underfoot.

WSJ: Book Review: The Age of Insight

The author frames his exegesis around the unexceptionable notion, ultimately derived from the Austrian art historian Alois Riegl, that art is incomplete without the perceptual and emotional contribution of the viewer.

WSJ: Book Review: The Age of Insight